The Probable and the Provable |
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| Author:
| Cohen, L. Jonathan |
| Series title: | Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-824412-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1977 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $135.00 |
Book Description:
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Argues that the probabilities invoked in Anglo=American law do not conform to the mathematics of the classical calculus of chance but have a determinate non-POascalian structure whih is closely connected with certain other patterns of human reasoning, and notably with the strucutre of inductive reasoning in experimental science.
Argues that the probabilities invoked in Anglo=American law do not conform to the mathematics of the classical calculus of chance but have a determinate non-POascalian structure whih is closely connected with certain other patterns of human reasoning, and notably with the strucutre of inductive reasoning in experimental science.